Children and their parents sat in the large Olive Schreiner hall. There was a loud buzz as everyone was chatting and laughing.
Author: _Gr0cCc0Tts_
TOUR DE ROAD: SANRAL Training Academy candidates (from left) Abednigo Bhila, Siphesihle Bulose and Serisha Sukraj, explained the importance of civil engineering to learners from Johnson Nqonqoza Senior Secondary School in Summerset East.
It is Thursday morning, 11.27am. It’s a sunny day and the Scifest programme Unpacking Human Performance at the university’s Department of Human Kinetics and Ergonomics.
Karabo Baloyi dons her orange bib to take a closer look into the life and times of the Scifriends
Despite the enfeebling, scorching sun, school children still ran around the Monument confirming, “Sifikile” (we have arrived).
The passion that drives Dr Jasper Horrell to do his job every day is inspiring. This humanities student, with no interest in science, was expecting a ridiculously boring lecture on telescopes and stars, radio waves and photographs – but this lecture was exciting.
Scifest has returned to Grahamstown and it is buzzing. Every corner of the town is covered in equally excited adults and school children as they learn more about the wonders of science.
If you’ve somehow managed to breeze through Scifest 2017 without coming to the realization that science is embodied in everything, then your ignorance is about stop right here, right now, with this example of how mathematics is woven into the iconic Xhosa beadworks.